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Hidden Allergies

It is amazing what you can find out about how you are when you embark on an elimination diet programme. Once you have got over the first week or so, you might notice some significant improvements in one or more health markers. This may well be because you have hidden allergies, or at least, adverse physiological responses to foods that you either didn't know about or hadn't noticed.

Below is a list of signs and symptoms associated with hidden allergies, and also relating to nutritional deficiencies that might be the result of hidden allergies. These are all symptoms and conditions that have been known to clear up or improve once the original source of the problem has been identified and dealt with.

Allergy, traditionally, has been held to encompass medical conditions that cause itching, sneezing or wheezing, thus:

But we now know that the immune system is very much more involved virtually all physiological processes in the body, and we can apply allergy methods, particularly elimination diets, to conditions that do not at first appear to be directly related to what was formerly understood as an allergic response. Often the actual processes that go on in the body and mediate these allergic responses are not that well understood, but nevertheless, they still seem to respond to clinical measures that one would apply to visible and apparent allergies.

Food Intolerance

Individual sensitivity to certain foods can cause intolerance, which can have far reaching effects on the digestive system, and compromise our ability to absorb the nutrients we need from our diet. Here are some of the signs of nutrient deficiencies. Please be aware that all the signs or symptoms below can be caused by other medical conditions.